Photo ID voting card is not un-American

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Jan 29, 2012 at 12:01 AMJan 29, 2012 at 12:45 AM

Liberal Democrats, President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and their liberal cohorts in the media reached a full-throated shriek of hypocrisy in the Burlington County Times' Jan. 22 guest commentary, "GOP attack on voting rights is un-American."

Cutting to the chase, this nonsensical political hack column called the requirement at polls of a state-registered photo identification voter card not just un-American, but also noted how racist these conniving Republicans are in their zeal to bar all sorts of Democrats from the voting booth.

For three whole columns there was hand-wringing in faux anguish for the poor, minorities, old and young being locked out of voting just because they are required to show a photo ID card. The arguments were both ridiculous and extremely demeaning to those they described as unable to handle the rigors of obtaining this dastardly card.

This is just the liberal media again providing cover for a direct assault by the president and the attorney general on those states that are trying to stem the rising tide of voter fraud in U.S. elections. They are bringing all the power of the federal government down on those states, using our tax money to fund federal lawyers to sue them. And, who really objects to states requiring them other than Obama, Holder and the liberal Democrats?

Exactly what are all these liberal Democrats trying to stop? If you have to show ID to buy Sudafed, get on a plane, etc., shouldn't you have to show it to do the one thing that is important to all Americans — the right to vote?

Is voter fraud occurring in America? Of course, and it's getting worse. Remember the Association of Community Organization Reform Now fraud from the 2008 Obama/McCain election? According to a 2009 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report, about a third of the 1.2 million new registrations turned in by ACORN and its direct affiliates in 2008 were fraudulent. In Mississippi, the voter perpetrator was a member of the NAACP's local executive committee. She was sentenced in April to five years in prison for voting in the names of 10 voters, including four who were deceased.

Finally, just who wants these photo ID voter cards anyway? Well, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that a full 70 percent of likely U.S. voters believe they should be required. Today, 32 states require some form of ID at the polls, and of those, seven ask for a photo ID but accept other ID forms, and eight require a photo ID. Every state that has passed an ID law has also ensured that the very small percentage of individuals who do not have a photo ID can easily obtain one for free.

A majority of states are moving to stricter forms of voter ID at the polls to contain increases of fraudulent voting activity. A majority of American voters believe it's the right thing to do.

So why all this sudden media uproar about un-American Republicans? And why now? Most of these laws are not that recent. Could it be that liberal Democrats and their media cohorts are trying to assure that only the minimum ID, if any, be required to vote in the November elections? The louder and louder the shrieking of the White House, Department of Justice and liberal media becomes over a photo ID requirement for voting in 2012, the more it brings to mind Shakespeare's saying: They "doth protest too much, methinks."

What are the liberal Democrats, Obama, Holder and the liberal media really trying to accomplish or perhaps hide?

Tom Rogers

Westampton

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